The two new features are:

Recommendations

Recommendations have been added to Google Reader to help with the discovery of new sites to subscribe to by providing personalised recommendations based on your current subscriptions and web history data.

It can be accessed from your Google Reader home page or by clicking on Discover (to browse for feeds – click on the browse tab within Discover).

Drop and Drag

Google Reader has now added drag-and-drop support for your subscriptions and folders which means you can now easily move feeds between folders, as well as reorder things up and down within your subscription list i.e. can re-arrange now with drag-and-drop instead of using Feed Settings or Manage Subscriptions.

FINAL THOUGHT
Don’t forget to check out the Edublog Awards 2007 finalists because you may find some new blogs to subscribe to in the list. You can vote for your favourite blogs by clicking on each Category title.

Decided to change my blog theme — always get very nervous when I do this. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Better or worse?

I like this theme much better, much cleaner look, less to distract from the content. I also like that the screenshots are a bit less cluttered and easier to follow. Your blog just keeps getting better and better!

Thanks Michele, Christine and Alex – I am glad you like my new theme. At least this way I can display a tag line and actually take part in activities that let me change my blog colour for a month. Amazing how long it has taken me to find this theme.

Hi Dennis — unfortunately like you I have little control over the theme of my blog since I choose to use a company (Edublogs) as opposed to hosting my own blog. This means I can only choose from the themes available and can’t make any changes to the one I use.

The only adjustment I can make is the centering of wording below the banner image because I used photoshop to add the words. I wanted the words because this was the only way I could add a tagline.

Thanks for your thoughts though because I am always fiddling with my theme to improve the look.